Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial Concert (1939)

A man talks about his addiction to amphetamines and illustrates his struggle by his sudden inability to fix a radio.

A parade of popular consumer items cut to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". A great example of Pop Art in film.

Another street scene from the Lumiere company

A Berlin street scene.

A high-speed view of Paris via train-track; Zooming down the Seine by boat. Chomette's first film, Games of Reflections and Speed, traverses tunnels and elevated railways to produce a disarming rhythm.

The parade occupies only a small portion of the screen, the crowds are a seething mass that do really move and the Independence Bell is nowhere to be seen.

19th century carnival ride.

A series of papers flutter in the wind in this short film by Hollis Frampton.

London to Brighton in 4 minutes BBC interlude. From the days when TV was all live and programming was hectic. Often when one program finished, the next one was not ready yet, and the gap had to be filled. So the BBC developed a number of interludes to fill these gaps, this being the most famous one.

The 8 minute short is open to interpretation as it examines the inner thoughts of several people around a table, with the Rita Hayworth version of Put the Blame on Mame playing on the soundtrack.

A series of ghost-like vehicles drive by in this short film by Hollis Frampton.

The camera pans across a field of flowers at extreme speeds in this short film by Hollis Frampton.

A butchered cow is decapitated in this short film by Hollis Frampton.

Duke Ellington and Orchestra perform 'C Jam Blues'.

Further examining the medium of film itself, Colorfilm is a work Lawder made while trying to make a minimalist, "pure color" film. Using spliced-together strips of colored film leader in white, yellow, blue, red, green, etc., Lawder ran the film through a projector and found the results to be quite boring. While he was running the film, though, he noticed how beautiful the colored strips of film looked as they ran through the projector. So, he turned a camera on the projector and filmed the colored film gorgeously winding its way through the projector's machinery." - Noel Black, Colorado Springs Independent

A man talks about addiction to barbiturates.

A bill poster comes upon a blank wall, and immediately puts up a poster advertising a movie show at one location.

A wall blocks the path of two people. One man submits, while the other refuses to admit defeat.